[quote]BlueCollarTr8n wrote:
Our analysis was greatly bolstered by our becoming familiar with the new and exciting group of historians who studied under University of Wisconsin historian William Appleman Williams. From them we discovered that all of us free marketeers had erred in believing that somehow, down deep, Big Businessmen were really in favor of laissez-faire, and that their deviations from it, obviously clear and notorious in recent years, were either “sellouts” of principle to expediency or the result of astute maneuverings by liberal intellectuals.
This is the general view on the right; in the remarkable phrase of Ayn Rand, Big Business is “America’s most persecuted minority.” Persecuted minority, indeed! Sure, there were thrusts against Big Business in the old McCormick Chicago Tribune and in the writings of Albert Jay Nock; but it took the Williams-Kolko analysis to portray the true anatomy and physiology of the American scene.
As Kolko pointed out, all the various measures of federal regulation and welfare statism that left and right alike have always believed to be mass movements against Big Business are not only now backed to the hilt by Big Business, but were originated by it for the very purpose of shifting from a free market to a cartelized economy that would benefit it. Imperialistic foreign policy and the permanent garrison state originated in the Big Business drive for foreign investments and for war contracts at home.
The role of the liberal intellectuals is to serve as “corporate liberals,” weavers of sophisticated apologias to inform the masses that the heads of the American corporate state are ruling on behalf of the “common good” and the "general welfare"Ã?¢??like the priest in the Oriental despotism who convinced the masses that their emperor was all-wise and divine.
Murray Rothbard 1968[/quote]
it is truley the first time I have heard some one capture the true essence of Rand . When the republicans embraced Ran it was the epitome of James Taggart
[quote]BlueCollarTr8n wrote:
Our analysis was greatly bolstered by our becoming familiar with the new and exciting group of historians who studied under University of Wisconsin historian William Appleman Williams. From them we discovered that all of us free marketeers had erred in believing that somehow, down deep, Big Businessmen were really in favor of laissez-faire, and that their deviations from it, obviously clear and notorious in recent years, were either “sellouts” of principle to expediency or the result of astute maneuverings by liberal intellectuals.
This is the general view on the right; in the remarkable phrase of Ayn Rand, Big Business is “America’s most persecuted minority.” Persecuted minority, indeed! Sure, there were thrusts against Big Business in the old McCormick Chicago Tribune and in the writings of Albert Jay Nock; but it took the Williams-Kolko analysis to portray the true anatomy and physiology of the American scene.
As Kolko pointed out, all the various measures of federal regulation and welfare statism that left and right alike have always believed to be mass movements against Big Business are not only now backed to the hilt by Big Business, but were originated by it for the very purpose of shifting from a free market to a cartelized economy that would benefit it. Imperialistic foreign policy and the permanent garrison state originated in the Big Business drive for foreign investments and for war contracts at home.
The role of the liberal intellectuals is to serve as “corporate liberals,” weavers of sophisticated apologias to inform the masses that the heads of the American corporate state are ruling on behalf of the “common good” and the "general welfare"Ã??Ã?¢??like the priest in the Oriental despotism who convinced the masses that their emperor was all-wise and divine.
Murray Rothbard 1968[/quote]
it is truley the first time I have heard some one capture the true essence of Rand . When the republicans embraced Ran it was the epitome of James Taggart [/quote]
How so? As a Rand fan I am not sure I see where you are going with ‘the true essence of Ran’. One opinion on her ideals on the ‘virtue of selfishness and greed’ is just that, one opinion on it.
[quote]pittbulll wrote:
Yes you are right . [/quote]
How has the middle class been robbed by the wealthy? They might be getting robbed but its not by the wealthy; it is by the government to take care of societal leaches that serve no purpose but to increase the burden on the rest of us.[/quote]
Classical argument to blame the government but leave private industry off the hook, as if they have no blame.